Cheerfully bright orange, creamy, spicy, and nourishing, Carrot Ginger Soup is just what you need to brighten up a winter day. Peppy carrots and ginger bring vitality to a sluggish winter body and mellow winter mind.
How to Make Carrot Ginger Soup
SERVINGS: 2
COOK TIME: 20 MINUTES SKILL LEVEL: EASY MEAL: LUNCH/ DINNER STYLE: AYURVEDIC PREPARATION: PUREE, SOUP, BOILED EAT IN: AUTUMN-WINTER FOR OCCASION: THANKSGIVING, CLEANSE, ON-THE-MEND
SKILL LEVEL: EASY
INGREDIENTS
2 pinch BLACK PEPPER 2 whole CARROT 2 tbsp CELERY STALK 1/4 inch GINGER (FRESH) 2 tsp OLIVE OIL 1/4 tsp SALT (MINERAL SALT)
PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE
1. Put carrots, ginger, celery into a blender. Fill to the height of the vegetables with water. Puree. Pour into pot and boil with other ingredients 10-15 minutes.
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness? CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
Cheerfully bright orange, creamy, spicy, and nourishing, Carrot Ginger Soup is just what you need to brighten up a winter day. Peppy carrots and ginger bring vitality to a sluggish winter body and mellow winter mind.
Back to Basics
When you don't know where to turn to feel good again, stick to the basics. Carrot Ginger Soup is essential in your repertoire of healing recipes. It's straightforward goodness simplifies your life, and offers your digestion a much needed rest from an everyday regimen bogged down by complexity. With spartan directness, Carrot Ginger Soup brings you back to a purity & wholesomeness you can trust.
Brighten and Lighten!
Ginger and black pepper burn away congestion and sluggishness from overly rich, oily foods. Meanwhile, celery is a diuretic that dries up water retention. This detoxifying recipe also features the mild laxative effects of carrot. Carrot is high in anti-oxidants for your immune system. It's beta-carotene supports the liver while purifying the blood. Expect improved vitality and clarity of mind within hours.
WHAT IS CARROT GINGER SOUP?
Simple and delicious
AYURVEDIC DIET? Eating Ayurvedically makes you feel nourished and energized. An Ayurvedic diet is tailored to your individual body type and the specific imbalances you are working with at any given time. Ayurveda shows you your specific body type’s needs and what should be favored in your Ayurvedic menu. Watch as you eat less but feel more satisfied because what you are eating truly nourishes you. Since Ayurveda believes all disease begins in the digestive tract, food is your first medicine. By eating a healthy diet that’s ideal for your body, you experience optimal health.
Herbal Actions of Cinnamon Oatmeal with Almonds & Milk.
Digestion: DIGESTIVE Herbs that encourage healthy digestion.
CARMINATIVE Stimulates the release of gas. Helpful for bloating or cramping abdominal pain. Propels food downward. Carminatives typically expel gas by relaxing the muscles of the intestines.
SIALOGOGUE A sialogogue increases saliva. Sour foods are often great sialogogues, and increase output of all exocrine glands. Salty taste is very moistening as well. Bitter, pungent and sweettastes also increase salivary output but to a lesser degree. Astringents.
Stomachic
Bowel Health:
GENERAL-LAXATIVE
Promotes a bowel movement. General laxative is an umbrella term that refers to several different types of laxatives.
HIGH-FIBER-LAXATIVE A class of laxative that adds bulk and water to stools. The size of a stool stimulates peristalsis and the stool passes more easily through the colon. It is important to drink plenty of water when using high fiber laxatives, as they can be dehydrating.
Cleanse & Detox: DETOXICANT An herb that decongests, dislodges or improves metabolization of toxins from the body, transforming or altering fluids to a more healthy state.
BURNS-TOXINS An herb that detoxifies by helping your body metabolize toxins, as opposed to eliminating them.
Energy Vitality: STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
NUTRITIVE An herb that is strengthening and nourishing.
TONIC A tonic herb restores function through strengthening tissue. This can happen through a combination of nourishing the tissue, and invigorating tissue metabolism. The tonic should not be withering, as in caffeine.
Skin Care & Beauty: DIAPHORETIC An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.
SKIN-TONIC An herb that strengthens and nourishes skin, improving tone, color, moisture and complexion.
Respiratory-Health: SOOTHES-THROAT Soothes throat discomfort, including from a sore or ticklish throat.
FLUSHES-SINUSES An herb that relieves sinus congestion by flushing out mucus.
DECONGESTANT An herb that reduces mucus production often by restricting blood flow to mucus membranes.
LUNG-TONIC Strengthens the lungs. Lung tonics include antifibrotic, vessel tonic, or nourishing herbs with an affinity for the lungs. They aid recovery in acute or chronic lung conditions.
Immune System: ANTI-INFLAMMATORY Reduces inflammation in the body. Different herbs and carriers target different body systems.
Heart & Circulation: CARDIAC-STIMULANT Herbs that increase the heart rate. Useful in cardiovascular health, blood stagnation, and subjective feeling of heaviness in the chest area.
VASODILATOR A vasodilator is an herb that widens the blood vessels by the relaxation of smooth muscle cells within the vessel walls, thereby increasing circulation systemically or to a local area.
BLOOD-TONIC An herb that produces more blood cells in the body, or otherwise improves blood cell quality or hemoglobin content. Helpful for anemia and other types of deficiency.
REBUILDS-FLUIDS Herbs or substances that create moisture in the body and increase fluids.
ALTERATIVE Restores the proper function of the body by cleansing the blood and balancing blood chemistry. In Ayurveda terms, they pacify Pitta in rakta. They were traditionally used to revitalize and detoxify after a long winter.
OPTHALMIC Benefits the eyes, vision tonic.
ANTIOXIDANT An antioxidant is a molecule that inhibits oxidation. Oxidation is a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals that lead to a chain reaction causing damage or death to cells. Antioxidants terminate these oxidation reactions.
Kidney & Urinary: DIURETIC Herbs that promote urine formation, thereby flushing the kidneys and urinary tract while eliminating any excess water retention. As diuretics reduce water retention, they are often used to reduce blood pressure.
Liver & Gallbladder: LIVOTONIC An herb that strengthens the liver. It is helpful for people with a history of substance abuse, chronic liver issues from hepatitis and hemolytic anemias. Generally, liver tonics are oily, cool, sweet, mildly sour, or contain beta-carotene.
Bone & Joint:
Antiarthritic
*Recipe from the Joyful Belly.
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